Triple header this week: (1) We read Harvard faculty member Salma Abu Ayyash’s response to Harvard’s new president’s recent message on Gaza, which falsely accuses critics of Israel’s genocide in Gaza of anti-Semitism and blames Gazans for triggering the genocide; (2) Al Jazeera conducted a thorough interview with Craig Mokhiber, longtime UN high commissioner who resigned. Mokhiber resigned because of the UN’s failure to adequately address Israel’s genocidal attacks on Gazan...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Salma Abu Ayyash, Harvard, Gaza, Craig Mokhiber, United Nations, lawsuit,...
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Today we will hear a forum that the establishment tried to censor by denying it a venue. But Union Theological Seminary opened its doors and welcomed the event into its chapel. Columbia professor, Rashid Khalidi, journalist and author Ta-Nehisi Coates, and civil rights attorney Michelle Alexander speak out against the genocide that Israel and our Government are perpetrating in Gaza with our money and in our name. The proceedings were paused several times by resounding applause, which you will...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Rashid Khalidi, Michelle Alexander, Truth and Justice...
Today we feature scholar Norman Finkelstein, a former professor who now has become a leading voice in, and sharp critique of the Israeli occupation of colonized Palestine. In this program he discusses the Gaza entrapment with journalist Chris Hedges, who introduces the program with historical perspective.
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Norman Finkelstein, Chris Hedges, Israeli occupation, colonized...
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Israel continues its genocide in Gaza and now Biden has made us all complicit. We hear selected Democracy Now interviews with brave Al Jazeera reporters, reporting while their entire families are gradually wiped out. Then we hear a powerful message from Chris Hedges about Israel's habitual deceit. The genocide in Gaza and the West Bank continues unabated and our President, and complicit Congress, say and do whatever Israel demands. There is no US leadership. There is no statesmanship, there is...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, genocide, Gaza, Biden, complicit, Democracy Now, Al Jazeera, Chris...
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Our host, John Roberts, reports: "As most of you probably know, I spent the week following the news coming out of Gaza. I gave up on the major media and and focused on sources that raised the Palestinian narrative and put the horrendous Hamas raid on Israel in historical context. There were not many. Democracy Now and Al Jazeera got most of my attention, and had the most humanitarian focus. So, for most of you who depended on our most popular media sources we feature today voices rarely...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Mustafa Barghouti, Amira Haas, Rashid Khalidi, Gaza, Hamas, Biden,...
Today we feature Palestinian voices giving context to this past week's crisis. These are voices which for the main part were not heard on commercial American TV. The first voice is Electronic Intifada’s founder Ali Abunimah as interviewed by Al-Jazeera early in the past week. Our 2nd voice, Palestinian Academic Rafaat Alameer, was recorded in Gaza as he sat in his home with his wife and 6 children as the Israeli firestorm was exploding all around them. The 3rd voice is Israeli dissenter Hagai...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Ali Abunimah, Rafaat Alameer, Hagai Matar, Rashid Khalidi, Hamas,...
We feature Kristin McCarthy of the Foundation for Middle East Peace in a conversation with Shira Livne of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel about all things annexation, including how annexation is related to the current judicial "reforms," and what annexation looked like previous to the current government? How significant are the changes in governance that the current government has taken? (Please note that this episode was produced JUST BEFORE Hamas made its tiny attack on...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Kristin McCarthy, Shira Livne, annexation, MIddle East Peace, Civil...
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Thomas Suárez is a London-based historical researcher as well as a professional Juilliard-trained violinist and composer. A former West Bank resident, he devoted several years to researching poorly-tapped and newly-declassified historical archives to compile his narratives. His previous books include three landmark works on the history of cartography, and Writings on the Wall: Palestinian Oral Histories. His latest book is titled Palestine Hijacked, a meticulously researched history of the...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Thomas Suárez, Palestine Hijacked, Writings on the Wall, Israel’s...
Thomas Suárez is a London-based historical researcher as well as a professional Juilliard-trained violinist and composer. A former West Bank resident, he devoted several years to researching poorly-tapped and newly-declassified historical archives to compile his narratives. His previous books include three landmark works on the history of cartography, and Writings on the Wall: Palestinian Oral Histories. His latest book is titled Palestine Hijacked, a meticulously researched history of the...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Thomas Suárez, narrative, Apartheid, West Bank, Writings on the Wall,...
Today we feature an exclusive interview with Alice Rothchild, a retired Obstetrician and Gynecologist who now spends her time advocating for justice in Palestine through her books, films, and critical commentary. Her new book, Finding Melody Sullivan, is a coming of age, young adult novel That is steeped in exploring the Palestinian reality. This is a wonderfully crafted book. Also with us this morning is Amahl Bishara, Professor of Anthropology at Tufts University, a Palestinian activist with...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Alice Rothchild, Amahl Bishara, Palestine, Finding Melody Sullivan,...
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Omar Baddar is a political analyst, digital producer, and human rights advocate based in Washington, DC. He holds an M.A. in International Relations and is the Deputy Director of the Arab American Institute. He recently gave a marvelous presentation at the Community Church of Boston, and we feature that for you today on This Week In Palestine. Here he is speaking with moderator Dean Stevens. We include the Q&A session.
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Omar Baddar, Arab American Institute, Community Church, Dean Stevens,...
Phil Weiss of Mondoweiss has a conversation with Sam Bahour. Sam is a Palestinian-American businessman, born in Youngstown, Ohio, and now living in Ramallah, Palestine. He is Co-founder & Emeritus Member of Americans for a Vibrant Palestinian Economy (A4VPE). He currently is an independent Director at the Arab Islamic Bank PLC and a board member at Just Vision. He writes frequently on Palestinian affairs and has been widely published in leading outlets. He is currently a policy analyst at...
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From 4-10-2022. We begin with a CNN interview with Palestinian attorney and Rutgers University Professor Noura Erakat. It's from early last year, but we play it to offer an example of the American media’s prejudicial approach to discussing the Palestinian struggle. The questions thrown at Noura imply that this is a symmetrical struggle between equals rather than a military occupation of a colonized people. But Noura brilliantly turns the interview into a projection of the Palestinian...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, CNN, Noura Erakat, Hamas rockets, right to resist, occupation, Edward...
One of the major battle grounds in the struggle to resist Israeli occupation and apartheid is in US colleges and universities. The rapidly growing activism on campuses across the country is meeting fierce opposition from university administrators pushed by wealthy alumni donors. Today we examine two such battles: (1) the attacks on Fatima Mohammed for her pro-Palestinian speech at the CUNY Law School graduation last May; and (2) the lengthy assault on Palestinian Student Senate President Ahmad...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Fatima Mohammed, Ahmad Daraldik, CUNY Law, Florida State, Electronic...
Reports from the ground in Palestine just get worse and worse as Israel exerts its will against the Palestinian people week after week with no criticism or denial of military support from the US. The Democratic party leadership offers no criticism of Israel’s military occupation or Apartheid governance. Just the opposite: it funds it. The Republicans are worse. But we need to hear these reports from the victims of this colonialism and stay on top of the siege against Palestinian that Israel...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Fayrouz Sharqawi, military occupation, apartheid, colonialism, Jerusalem...
This week we critically examine the role and responsibility of American Jews to confront the established Jewish organizations, the Jewish Lobby, and local synagogues concerning the apartheid state of Israel and its military occupation of the Palestinian people. Our Congress and Government officials will not back away from the sickening support they give to Israel until enough of us challenge the choke hold that the Jewish establishment, like AIPAC, and other political PACs have on Congress...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Jewish Lobby, apartheid, military occupation, illegal theft, American...
We begin with an on-the-ground briefing from Jerusalem by our old friend Jeff Halper, a now retired College Professor who grew up in Hibbing MN but migrated to Israel in 1973 where he has been an activist for Palestinian rights ever since. He is the co-founder of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICHAD), a resistance group that confronts the Israeli military in its program of systematically destroying Palestinian homes to exert collective punishment. Jeff is a world-class...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Jerusalem, Jeff Halper, ICHAD, collective punishment, Chris Hedges,...
Can you imagine the magnitude of the mental health crisis in Gaza? Here to talk about that is the Director General of the Gaza Community Health Programme, Dr Yasser Abu Jamei. He sat down for an exclusive interview with activist Nancy Murray, president of the Gaza Mental Health Foundation to discuss the reality of serving as a Psychiatrist to this massive traumatized population. The Gaza Community Mental Health Program is the leading Palestinian non-governmental organization which provides...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Yasser Abu Jamei, Nancy Murray, Gaza Community Health Programme, Gaza...
This week we take a deep look inside the Jenin resistance following the Israeli bombardment of the city. What was happening inside Jenin, on the streets, during the Israeli assault? What was the Palestinian Authority doing or not doing? We feature a review and analysis of the Jenin assault through the eyes of 4 journalists who covered it in the following Mondoweiss News Service Report. [Recording from Mondoweiss] That was a special report and analysis of the recent Israeli attack on the Best...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Jenin, Mondoweiss, Lori Trahan, magic dust, Israeli Lobby, McCollum,...
Recently, Massachusetts Peace Action presented Palestinian-Egyptian activists Ramy Shaath and his wife Céline Lebrun-Shaath in a webinar. They tell their story about the persecution they faced for their political activism in promoting the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) Movement in Egypt. This is something that Egyptian "leaders" cannot tolerate! We present selected excerpts from their 74-minute webinar. You can see and hear the entirety at...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Massachusetts Peace Action, Ramy Shaath, Céline Lebrun-Shaath, BDS,...
Jenin, a defenseless Palestinian refugee camp, is still under full Israeli military assault. Vigilante style attacks by Jewish settlers have raised the level of resistance by Palestinians. Israel supports its settlers’ vigilantism by bombing civilian populations in much the same way they have done numerous times in Gaza. We begin with typical BBC Reports from the area, pointedly including a reported recent Palestinian retaliatory attack in Tel Aviv. Ali Abunimah of The Electronic Intifada was...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, BBC, Jenin, Ali Abunimah, Phil Weiss, Mondoweiss, New York Observer,...
We begin today with a dose of reality that we must continue to confront and expose. That is the desperate situation that Palestinians face under a military occupation that is increasingly becoming a vigilante society fueled by out-of-control settlers who are protected by Israeli soldiers executing a policy of ethnic cleansing against a defenseless Palestinian population living on their own land. How bad is it? We start with an interview with Mariam Barghouti, a Mondoweiss reporter based in...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Drone strikes, Settler attacks, Mariam Barghouti, Amy Goodman, Phil...
Our feature presentation focuses on an examination of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of Anti-Semitism through a conversation that Lara Friedman moderates with Yousef Munayyer and Emma Saltzberg. The most recent definition which has taken root is the controversial International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) definition of antisemitism. There is a current campaign to codify this definition in law. Such legislation is now before the Massachusetts House...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Lara Friedman, Yousef Munayyer, Emma Saltzberg, IHRA, anti-semitism,...
We begin with a report by MSNBC’s Mehdi Hasan speaking with journalist Antony Loewenstein, who has written a book documenting how Israel uses Gaza as testing ground for its massive armaments industry. Today's feature presentation is a conversation with Journalist Ali Abunimah in an Electronic Intifada Podcast moderated by Nora Barrows-Friedman and Asa Winstanley. The matters discussed include Israel's increasing attacks on innocent Palestinians, including children, and perhaps most shocking,...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Mehdi Hasan, Antony Loewenstein, Gaza, testing ground, armaments...
We take a look at the weaponization of the law to launch an offensive against organizations and projects which support the Palestinian resistance to the occupation of their homeland, in this case, through the right-wing pro-Israeli Lawfare Project. We focus on the analysis and significance of the lawsuit that Jewish National Fund brought against the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights, a coalition of pro-Palestinian organizations here in the US. We join the US Campaign's executive director,...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Lawfare, Case Study, Campaign for Palestinian Rights, Ahmed Abuznaid,...
The definition of antisemitism has been broadened and weaponized by some to include not just hatred of the Jewish people, but criticism of Zionism and Israel. This morning, in a debate against two of such persuasion, journalist Mehdi Hasan and historian Ilan Pappé explain why Anti-Zionism is NOT Anti-Semitism. The YES advocates are Times columnist Melanie Phillips and Israeli former Member of the Knesset Einat Wilf. This debate was sponsored the by the mainstream British forum, Intelligence...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Ilan Pappé, Mehdi Hasan, Melanie Phillips, Einat Wilf, anti-Zionist,...
Today we feature a conversation with Palestinian physician, author, journalist, and activist Ghada Karmi. Karmi speaks with the Electronic Intifada’s Nora Barrows Friedman and Asa Winstanley. Her seminal book, Searching for Fatima, is a classic memoir of her own family’s expulsion from their home in Palestine during the Nakba. But first, we take note of yet another insulting slap in the face by Israel supporter Joe Biden. At the recent nationally televised White House Correspondents'...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Ghada Karmi, Electronic Intifada, Nora Barrows Friedman, Asa Winstanley,...
Alice Rothchild is doctor, writer, filmmaker and activist who has spent decades in key social justice movements. She is the author of three books, Broken Promises, Broken Dreams: Stories of Jewish and Palestinian Trauma and Resilience was released in 2007, On the Brink: Israel and Palestine on the Eve of the 2014 Gaza Invasion , came in 2014, and Condition Critical: Life and Death in Israel/Palestine , was published in 2017. This year Cune Press will publish her first young adult novel, Finding...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Alice Rothchild, Phil Weiss, Finding Melody Sullivan, Israeli occupation,...
Yara Asi speaks with the Foundation for Middle East Peace's Sarah Anne Minkin about how to understand Palestinians' access, if any, to public health resources. As Minkin details, Israeli policy is essentially to cruelly reduce or eliminate any such access just as much as possible. The so-called Palestinian Authority is no help, by design. Thus, when a Palestinian or his/her child needs a doctor's or hospital's attention immediately, he/she is put through a sadistic wild goose chase from...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Yara Asi, Sarah Anne Minkin, public health, apartheid, Foundation for...
An exception to the denial of broadcasting the Palestinian narrative in the US is Democracy Now, hosted by Amy Goodman on Free Speech TV, and on WZBC at noon each weekday. A few days ago, the news program featured Palestinian attorney Diana Buttu and Israeli journalist Gideon Levy, in a segment we now re-broadcast. It's an illustration of the kind of reporting that should be available to us throughout the US media, but is not. A second source that highlights the Palestinian voice is the online...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Amy Goodman, Diana Buttu, Gideon Levy, Josh Ruebner, Democracy Now,...
The most successful weapon of resistance used by the Palestinians in their asymmetrical struggle with Israel has been the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS). So successful, that Israel is spending millions of dollars to destroy it through a state legislative campaign to make BDS illegal in every state in the Union . This morning, in an Electronic Intifada podcast, we examine this assault on Palestinian resistance as well as an assault on the First Amendment to the US Constitution....
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Nora Barrows Friedman, Asa Winslett, Electronic Intifada, BDS, boycott,...
You are perhaps familiar with the American Legislative Exchange Council, ALEC, a right-wing think tank that drafts right-wing legislation and then lobbies Congress as well as state legislators to introduce and press passage of their drafted bills. They have had enormous success enacting their right-wing agendas, both at the federal and state level. There is an Israeli counterpart, Kohelet, a far-Right, US-Funded Israeli think-tank that Shapes Policy and Law in the US and Israel. Kohelet...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Kohelet, ALEC, far-right, Ran Cohen, Yousef Munayyer, Eran Nissan, Lara...
The organizing campaign for Palestinian rights in the US is most aggressively being waged on college campuses. And at the center of that organizing is a rapidly growing organization, Students for Justice in Palestine, SJP. They have been met by aggressive tactics of retaliation from campus Jewish organizations and University administrations being pressed by wealthy alumni donors to silence SJP. SJP recently met at their annual conference to assess its past work and strategize for the future,...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Students for Justice in Palestine, SJP, conference, Mondoweiss,...
Our feature presentation is an analysis of the power (or lack thereof) of international courts in Palestine’s search for justice. Lara Friedman, President of the Foundation for Middle East Peace, speaks with international legal expert Vito Todeschini on her podcast. https://fmep.org/resource/the-quest-for-justice-for-palestine-at-the-icc-and-icj-where-things-stand-today-why-it-matters/ . But first, we learn what reporter James Bamford found out about Israel's collusion with Donald Trump to...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Lara Friedman, Vito Todeschini, international courts, James Bamford,...
Our Palestinian voice today is that of Sami Abu Shehadeh, a Palestinian community political activist who grew up in the Lod area of Israel, where he still resides. Sami is the leader of Balad political party, and served as a member of the Knesset for the Joint List from 2019 to 2022. Today we feature him on a Canadian broadcast talking about apartheid in Israel, from the inside out, as lived by non-Jews under this oppressive de jure discriminative system.
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Sami Abu Shehadeh, Lod, Jaffa, Balad political party, Knesset, Joint...
This week we critically examine the role and responsibility of American Jews to confront the established Jewish organizations, the Jewish Lobby, and local synagogues concerning the apartheid state of Israel and its military occupation of the Palestinian people. Our Congress and Government officials will not back away from the sickening support they give to Israel until enough of us challenge the chock hold that the Jewish establishment, like AIPAC, and other political pacs have on Congress...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Jewish Lobby, apartheid, military occupation, illegal theft, American...
This week we continue our exploration of the so called special relationship between the United States and Israel, a relationship that guarantees the continuing world power of this Apartheid state while it carries out its brutal military occupation of Palestinian land. In March of 2006, John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago, and Steven Walt of Harvard published their seminal book, The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy, revealing the machinations of the powerful Israeli Lobby....
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, John Mearsheimer, Steven Walt, special relationship, Israel Lobby,...
Nora Barrows-Friedman of Electronic Intifada speaks with Lara Sheehi, assistant professor of clinical psychology at George Washington University, Washington DC, who has been at the center of recent Israel lobby attacks. Sheehi is joined by her lawyer, Abed Ayoub. ... But first... In recent years a number of academic organizations and campus groups have endorsed the BDS movement, often leading to backlash from pro-Israel organizations. State authorities in New York recently opened a probe into...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Lara Sheehi, Abed Ayoub, Nora Barrows-Friedman, Steven Salaita, George...
We take a look at the weaponization of the law to launch an offensive against organizations and projects which support the Palestinian resistance to the occupation of their homeland, in this case, through the right-wing pro-Israeli Lawfare Project. We focus on the analysis and significance of the lawsuit that Jewish National Fund brought against the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights, a coalition of pro-Palestinian organizations here in the US. We join the US Campaign's executive director,...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Lawfare, Case Study, Campaign for Palestinian Rights, Ahmed Abuznaid,...
A new, supposedly Democratic, political action committee (PAC) has arisen, dedicated to cultivating what it refers to as “moderate policies.” It stands against Republicans, as it supports only Democrats, but primarily, it aims to move the Democratic party to the right. It’s the latest iteration of conservative efforts to revive the classical conservatism that has been drowned by right-wing fanaticism, creating the so-called “Never-Trump Republicans” who don’t have a political home...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Moderate PAC, Abdaljawad Omar, Nora Barrows, Electronic Intifada, Justice...
Our feature presentation is Cornel West, giving the keynote speech at the opening session of the 2021 Annual Conference of the Jerusalem Fund and Palestine Center in Washington, DC. We include some Q&A. West is a professor, author and scholar who currently teaches at Union Theological Seminary in NYC. He previously taught at Yale, Harvard, and University of Paris. He is also a human rights activist who can be found demonstrating on the streets as well as teaching in the classroom. His major...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Cornel West, Black/Palestinian solidarity, Jerusalem Fund, Palestine...
Can you imagine the magnitude of the mental health crisis in Gaza? Here to talk about that is the Director General of the Gaza Community Health Programme, Dr Yasser Abu Jamei. He sat down for an exclusive interview with activist Nancy Murray, president of the Gaza Mental Health Foundation to discuss the reality of serving as a Psychiatrist to this massive traumatized population. The Gaza Community Mental Health Program is the leading Palestinian non-governmental organization which provides...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Yasser Abu Jamei, Nancy Murray, Gaza Community Health Programme, Gaza...
Today we focus on the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Palestine, Francesca Albanese in a conversation with Lara Friedman, President of the Foundation for Middle East Peace. The task of the Special Rapporteur is to assess the human rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, report publicly about it, and work with governments, civil society and others to foster international cooperation. The Special Rapporteur undertakes regular visits or missions to the Occupied Palestinian...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Francesca Albanese, Lara Friedman, Special Rapporteur, human rights,...
Palestinian resistance to the colonization of their homeland is being discussed on campuses all over the US, creating enormous concern to the Jewish establishment, which is spending large sums of money to counter this growing phenomenon. Today we examine one of those struggles at the University of California’s law school at Berkeley. We present a discussion of their particular campus battle in a debate between Dylan Saba, an attorney with Palestine Legal who represents the Palestinian...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Dylan Saba, Ethan Katz, Peter Beinart, Palestine Legal, uncomfortable,...
Today on a program called Khouri conversations, we join The Foreign Press Association and Palestine DeepDive in an interview with Kenneth Roth, "the Godfather of Human Rights," about Harvard’s decision to block him from taking up a fellowship over Human Rights Watch's criticism of Israel’s human rights record. Kenneth Roth headed Human Rights Watch for 30 years, but recently stepped down and has left the organization. When the Carr School of Human Rights at the Harvard Kennedy...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Kenneth Roth, Foreign Press Association, Palestine DeepDive, Human Rights...
An exception to the denial of broadcasting the Palestinian narrative in the US is Democracy Now, hosted by Amy Goodman on Free Speech TV, and on WZBC at noon each weekday. A few days ago, the news program featured Palestinian attorney Diana Buttu and Israeli journalist Gideon Levy, in a segment we now re-broadcast. It's an illustration of the kind of reporting that should be available to us throughout the US media, but is not. A second source that highlights the Palestinian voice is the online...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Amy Goodman, Diana Buttu, Gideon Levy, Josh Ruebner, Democracy Now,...
At this time of year, one wants to wish everyone a Happy New Year, but it will not be a happy new year for Palestinians. That was guaranteed when the most right wing Israeli government in history (and that is saying something) was elected and has come into power. There is genuine depression in Palestine because they know that however bad it has been for them in the past, it is now going to be even worse. Under this Israeli administration, that is guaranteed, and we see it already as the killing...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Sandra Tamira, Beth Miller, right wing, apartheid, killing of...
Miko Peled ("the general's son") is author of Injustice: The Story of the Holy Land Foundation Five (Just World Books, 2018). When it was new, we read one of its chapters out loud on air. Peled continues to follow up by speaking all over the world, including his 2nd time last week at Community Church of Boston. He explains the noble mission of the widely respected Holy Land Foundation, and its squeaky-clean operation. He recounts the transparently obvious dishonesty of our...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Miko Peled, Community Church of Boston, Injustice, Holy Land Foundation,...
November 29th marked 75 years since the United Nations passed Resolution 181, calling for a partition of the land of Palestine between a Palestinian state and a Jewish state. Israel emerged out of the Partition Plan as a viable and cohesive state, at the direct expense of rights of the indigenous Palestinian nation. Since 1977, the UN General Assembly has commemorated this day as the ‘International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People,’ which serves as an annual reminder to the...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Resolution 181, Edmund Ghareeb, Francesca Albanese, Elizabeth Ferris,...
Thomas Suárez is a London-based historical researcher as well as a professional Juilliard-trained violinist and composer. A former West Bank resident, he devoted several years to researching poorly-tapped and newly-declassified historical archives to compile his narratives. His previous books include three landmark works on the history of cartography, and Writings on the Wall: Palestinian Oral Histories. His latest book is titled Palestine Hijacked, a meticulously researched history of the...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Thomas Suárez, Palestine Hijacked, Writings on the Wall, Israel’s...
Today we feature a conversation between the President of the Foundation for Middle East Peace’s Lara Friedman and Sarah Posner, renowned expert on American pro-Israel evangelicals, about these evangelicals and their agenda in the context of the recent Israeli elections, the recent US midterms, and the race for the 2024 White House. But first, we discuss the continuing, almost daily, killing of Palestinians by the Israeli military, which continues unabated. In just the last few days 9...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Lara Friedman, Sara Posner, Pro-Israel evangelicals, Foundation for...
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Today we feature a conversation between the President of the Foundation for Middle East Peace, Lara Friedman, and Sarah Posner, renowned expert on American pro-Israel evangelicals, about these evangelicals and their agenda in the context of the recent Israeli elections, the recent US midterms, and the race for the 2024 White House. But first, we discuss the continuing, almost daily, killing of Palestinians by the Israeli military, which continues unabated. In just the last few days 9...
Topics: Sheriff Fam, John Roberts, pro-Israel, evangelicals, Foundation for Middle East Peace, Lara...
The full title is "Rethinking Statehood in Palestine: Self-Determination and Decolonization Beyond Partition." The forum was at Harvard Divinity School. Leila Farsakh is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. She is joined by two colleagues who each wrote a chapter in the book: Maha Nassar, who is Associate Professor of Modern Middle East History, and Islamic Studies at the University of Arizona, and Susan Akram, Clinical Professor of Law...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Leila Farsakh, Rethinking Statehood, Maha Nassar, Susan Akram, Rabea...
The Pulitzer Prize winning author and civil rights icon, Alice Walker, of all people, has come under attack from the Zionist Lobby for being antisemitic because of her outspoken defense of the Palestinian People as they face Israeli Military occupation. This, of course, is the modus operandi of the Israeli Hasbara. To them, any criticism of Israel is per se antisemitic. But Alice Walker? How desperate do you have to be to attack a human rights warrior of such distinction? ... Today we feature a...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Jeff Mackler, Susan Abulhawa, Chris Hedges, Alice Walker, Zionist Lobby,...
Besides AIPAC, ADL, and their brethren, there is another powerful lobby that is pressing the Israeli Zionist narrative in American Society and that is the Christian Zionist movement. It has enormous numbers, and serious political clout. We do not pay enough attention to it. Today we feature Reverend Don Wagner, an openly recovering Christian Zionist, who will lead us through an historic analysis of Christian Zionism in a presentation he gave at the recent conference sponsored by the Washington...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Don Wagner, powerful lobby, Christian Zionist, Israeli Zionist narrative,...
John interviews the book's author in great detail. Palestinians living on different sides of the Green Line make up approximately one-fifth of Israeli citizens and about four-fifths of the population of the West Bank. In both groups, activists assert that they share a single political struggle for national liberation. Yet, obstacles inhibit their ability to speak to each other and as a collective. Geopolitical boundaries fragment Palestinians into ever smaller groups. Crossing a Line enters...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Amahl Bishara, West Bank, Green Line, national liberation, geopolitical...
The magnitude of US support, in light of the wealth of Israel, is obscene, and of course tragic for Palestine, which is the main victim of this huge military, the fifth largest in the world. Add to that the fact that Israel is the largest per capita importer and exporter of military hardware on the planet, you have to ask why. Why does the US send 3.8 billion dollars of military aid a year to a major manufacturer and distributor of arms to the international community? Why are US police being...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Susan Abulhawa, Israel, military hardware, 3.8 billion dollars, Edward...
This week we feature old friend, Jeff Halper, resident of Jerusalem, and co-founder of the Israeli committee against House Demolitions, who is now on his annual speaking tour of the US. This particular presentation is his conversation with Dr. Michael Spath, director of the Indiana Center For Middle East Peace. But first, we begin today with an open letter published just a couple of weeks ago which was signed by 304 working Palestinian journalists who are under constant physical and...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Jeff Halper, Michael Spath, Indiana Center, Shatha Hammad, Zionist Lobby,...
The continuing assault of news reporting on Israel’s escalating theft of Palestinian land, house demolitions, and armed settlers threatening the movements of indigenous Palestinians is so constant that we tend to become insensitive to its brutality. So this morning we will take a deep look at the current atrocity taking place in Masafer Yatta. What makes this story all the more galling is that the theft here by Israel is to take Palestinian land to build a military installation, a firing...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Masafer Yatta, A-Twani, firing range, Firing Zone 918, Basel Adraa, Sarah...
Palestinian-American Huwaida Arraf is a resident of Michigan where she recently ran an unsuccessful campaign to be the Democratic nominee to the US Congress in her district. She is an attorney with an impressive history of activism in Palestine. Here she tells that story of activism, and in so doing reveals important information on some of the most significant events in the history of Palestinian resistance.
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Huaida Arraf, Israel's cruelty, Israel's genocidal cruelty, Palestinian...
Recently, Massachusetts Peace Action presented Palestinian-Egyptian activists Ramy Shaath and his wife Céline Lebrun-Shaath in a webinar. They tell their story about the persecution they faced for their political activism in promoting the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Movement in Egypt. At present, you can watch this webinar's entire 74-minute video at http://masspeaceaction.org/our-issues/palestine-israel .
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Massachusetts Peace Action, Ramy Shaath, Céline Lebrun-Shaath, BDS,...
Today we take a long critical look at the history and role of the Palestinian Authority (PA) as a militarized security agency working in collaboration with Israel to enforce the occupation and colonization of Palestine. Professor Joseph Massad, who has done extensive research on the PA, addresses the issue in an Electronic Intifada Podcast. Massad teaches modern Arab politics and intellectual history at Columbia University in New York. He is the author of several books, including Desiring Arabs...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Joseph Massad, PA, Palestinian Authority, collaborator, PLO, Electronic...
Today we take another look at the plight of Palestinians who live within the borders of Israel…some 20% of the Israeli population. Haneen Al Zoubi is a long time outspoken Palestinian activist who also serves as an elected member of the Israeli Knesset, and she is our featured speaker today. For many years Israel has tried unsuccessfully to silence and marginalize Haneen al Zoubi, but she has prevailed. Here is her talk at the Palestine Center in Washington DC. (Despite our efforts, sound...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Haneen Al Zoubi, Knesset, Israeli Knesset, Palestine, 20%, Israel, Truth...
We feature Palestinian activist Linda Sarsour and Black activist Marc Lamont Hill in an Al Jazeera recorded conversation on intersectionality,the linkage of the Palestinian rights movement with the movement for Black rights in the US. The second movement we focus on today is visibility of the Palestinian rights movement on US campuses today, in particular the development of the Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) movement which has initiated immense pushback from Zionist campus groups, the...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Intersectionality, Linda Sarsour, Marc La mont Hill, visibility, Students...
We are getting a lot of information about the funding of election candidates now that the Primary Election season is winding down and financial reports are filed. Because of the urgency of this election, unprecedented amounts of money are being poured into the primary process, much of it dark money that comes with a cost. One of the major sources of candidates' campaign money is the America Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), which is pouring huge amounts of funding into candidates based...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Take-Aways, AIPAC, dark money, primary election, insurrectionists, white...
In 1948 most, but not all, of the Palestinian population were forced out of the territory that eventually became the State of Israel. Palestinians who remain now comprise 20% of the official citizenship of Israel, and therefore have elected representatives in the Knesset. Israel's official claim to be a democracy is based on this. But the Palestinians don't have equal rights at all. They are second class citizens, by law, in a Jewish apartheid state. The Palestinians' elected representatives in...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Edmund Ghareeb, Sami Abu Shehadeh, Palestinian citizens, 20%, Knesset,...
First, an editorial about Israel's recent assaults on its human rights organizations: "That is what is happening, and we not only let Israel get away with it, we fund it. The US could stop it, but instead, we fuel it." ... Our feature presentation today digs deep into the myths of Israel’s so-called “self defense strategy” (they of course are never the aggressor, always the victim). Nora Barrows-Friedman and Greg Stupak, both journalists with the Electronic Intifada, discuss the...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Nora Barrows-Friedman, Greg Shupak, Electronic Intifada, self defense...
Besides AIPAC, ADL, and their brethren, there is another powerful lobby that is pressing the Israeli Zionist narrative in American Society and that is the Christian Zionist movement. It has enormous numbers, and serious political clout. We do not pay enough attention to it. Today we feature Reverend Don Wagner, an openly recovering Christian Zionist, who will lead us through an historic analysis of Christian Zionism in a presentation he gave at the recent conference sponsored by the Washington...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Don Wagner, powerful lobby, Christian Zionist, Israeli Zionist narrative,...
We are about halfway through the primary election season in the United States. This cycle has seen an explosive growth in spending from political action committees tied to pro-Israel lobby groups such as the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC. In this episode Michael Arria and Dave Reed speak with Beth Miller from JVP Action and campaign consultant Peter Feld about how this direct campaign engagement from Israel lobby groups is affecting elections.
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Mondoweiss, AIPAC, Michael Arria, Dave Reed, Beth Miller, JVP, Peter...
This week we continue our exploration of the so called special relationship between the United States and Israel, a relationship that guarantees the continuing world power of this Apartheid state while it carries out its brutal military occupation of Palestinian land. In March of 2006, John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago, and Steven Walt of Harvard published their seminal book, The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy, revealing the machinations of the powerful Israeli Lobby....
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, John Mearsheimer, Steven Walt, special relationship, Israel Lobby,...
Today we take another look at the fallout from the recent reports by international human rights organizations which have issued concurring exhaustive reports documenting that Israel indeed meets the protocols of apartheid under international law. The United States Congress and the White House have condemned the reports by Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and B’Tselem without commentary as to why…without any critical analysis of the actual reports, but by putting down the reports...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Narrative, Apartheid, Paul O’Brien, Maha Nassar, Peter Beinart, Lara...
President Biden recently visited Israel, where he lavishly spoke of the “special relationship” between the US and Israel, and swore unwavering loyalty to that slavish Israel-USA bond. In response to Biden’s prostration before the Israeli Apartheid state, we offer historian Walter Hixson’s insightful analysis of that “special relationship” from our archive edition of This Week in Palestine, which we broadcast originally in January, 2022. [Sorry, but we are unable to reverse the...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Walter Hixson, special relationship, slavish, Israel-USA bond, Apartheid...
Nidal explains what his organization (1for3) has been doing every day, and the never-ending Israeli hassles it and its flock manage somehow to withstand. As Nidal explains, the Aida refugee camp is an Israeli construct. Palestinians, robbed of their longtime homes, were pushed into camps like this. It’s under military occupation and constant threat of Israeli violence. Seventy years in, Israel’s leaders continue to pound its victims with lethal violence and theft. For example,...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Nidal Al Azraq, 1for3, Aida Refugee Camp, Bethlehem, Israeli hassles,...
After many years of endeavors to get access to justice, Palestinian civil society and victims welcomed the UN ICC Prosecutor’s announcement that there was sufficient evidence proving the commission of war crimes in the territory of Palestine. However, seven years since the beginning of the preliminary investigation and more than a year after the opening of a supposedly full-fledged investigation, no concrete steps have been taken by the Court to put an end to the ‘impunity crisis’ in the...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, ICC, International Criminal Court, Triestin Mariniello, Raje Sourani,...
Today we revisit the struggle of pro-Palestinian activists in the United States who counter the well-funded attempts by the pro-Israel Lobby to silence criticism of Israel. We focus on the efforts of two organizations that provide legal resources to support the organizing efforts of pro Palestinian activists who resist efforts to silence them: The American Civil Liberties Union and Palestine Legal. In a forum at the Washington Press Club, the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs featured...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU, Palestine Legal, Middle East...
Journalist/author Hass insists that covering Palestine from Palestine is as necessary as covering Britain from London, and France from Paris. Her reports for the Israeli daily Ha’aretz, which she says "cannot be objective, just as any reporting about wrong-doing cannot be objective," have won her enemies in all camps. Forced by Hamas to leave Gaza earlier than planned, in 2008, she was detained in Israel twice for entering Gaza without a permit and staying in an "enemy...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Amira Hass, covering Palestine, Gaza, Ramallah, Ha'aretz, wrong-doing,...
Today we explore the crisis of Palestinian Leadership and the role that civil society plays in the resistance to the Israeli occupation, Featuring Ahmed Abu Artema (Palestinian writer and activist and the key architect of the March of Return in Gaza) and Marwa Fatafta (Policy Manager at Access Now). In this session we explored issues surrounding Palestinian civil society, and in particular human rights defenders and democracy activists, and the challenges and threats they face — including...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Ahmed Abu Artema, Marwa Fatafta, Palestinian civil society, civil...
Today we take another look at the influence of the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) on American elections and their role to squash any vestige of criticism of Israel. It is largely their role in pouring literally millions of dollars into political campaigns that creates enormous influence on candidates running for office. The message is clear. If you want our money and support, do not cross Israel!
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Peter Beinart, Waleed Shahid, Jeff Klein, Phil Weiss, AIPAC, American...
Levy is a respected award-winning Israeli journalist and author. In this address, he laments the hypocrisy of those who claim Israeli values relating to Ukraine -- versus those in Palestine. Israel claims to be "special" and therefore not bound by others' rules of war or human rights. So among the millions who are fleeing Ukraine, Israel welcomes only the Jewish. Others must pay a fee of $3000 and may stay only 30 days. So Israelis applaud the youth of Ukraine who throw so-called...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Gideon Levy, Ukraine, Molotov cocktails, hypocrisy, Truth and Justice...
Nancy has been to Palestine over 20 times, often leading delegations, and we have come to depend on her reporting and analysis of the facts on the ground. We recently sat down with Nancy and recorded this report-back and conversation.
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Nancy Murray, fact-finding, report-back, West Bank, Truth and Justice...
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Israel's brazen assassination of Shireen Abu Akleh has shaken the Palestinian world. For 25 years she was on television in every Palestinian home reporting for Al Jazeera News Service from the hot spots of the Israeli occupation. Seemingly everyone knew Shireen; she was a trusted voice reporting the news day in and day out. Responding to her death, the popular Al Jazeera news program, The Stream, featured a forum on Shireen and her work. It reflected the love and admiration of Shireen’s...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Shireen Abu Akleh, Rashid Khalidi, brazen, Al Jazeera, The Stream, Truth...
The Pulitzer Prize winning author and civil rights icon, Alice Walker, of all people, has come under attack from the Zionist Lobby for being antisemitic because of her outspoken defense of the Palestinian People as they face Israeli Military occupation. This, of course, is the modus operandi of the Israeli Hasbara. To them, any criticism of Israel is per se antisemitic. But Alice Walker? How desperate do you have to be to attack a human rights warrior of such distinction? ... Today we feature a...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Jeff Mackler, Susan Abulhawa, Chris Hedges, Alice Walker, Zionist Lobby,...
Besides AIPAC, ADL, and their brethren, there is another powerful lobby that is pressing the Israeli Zionist narrative in American Society and that is the Christian Zionist movement. It has enormous numbers, and serious political clout. We do not pay enough attention to it. Today we feature Reverend Don Wagner, an openly recovering Christian Zionist, who will lead us through an historic analysis of Christian Zionism in a presentation he gave at the recent conference sponsored by the Washington...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Don Wagner, powerful lobby, Christian Zionist, Israeli Zionist narrative,...
This discussion was recorded in a podcast sponsored by Adalah and the American Friends Service Committee. It features an activist from each of the major sectors which divide the Palestinian people, Gaza, Israel which Palestinians often call Palestine 48, and of course the West Bank. The activists are Ahmed Abu Artema (Gaza), Sandra Tamari (Palestine '48), and Mariam Barghouti (West Bank). They are introduced and presented with questions by Adam Horowitz, an editor of the website Mondoweiss ....
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Adalah, American Friends Service Committee, Palestinian people, Gaza,...
In the first segment we feature Palestinian activist Linda Sarsour and Black activist Marc Lamont Hill in an Al Jazeera recorded conversation on intersectionality,the linkage of the Palestinian rights movement with the movement for Black rights in the US. The second movement we focus on today is visibility of the Palestinian rights movement on US campuses today, in particular the development of the Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) movement which has initiated immense pushback from...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Intersectionality, Linda Sarsour, Marc La mont Hill, visibility, Students...
Today we explore issues related to Israeli policies in Jerusalem, including ongoing displacement of Palestinian residents and expansion of Israeli settlements in East Jerusalem, why Jerusalem continues to serve as a catalyst for Palestinian protest (and harsh Israeli violence in response), and how Jerusalem continues to be at the heart of Palestinian and Israeli national aspirations. We will hear portions of a webinar titled “Whose Jerusalem?” featuring: Daniel Seidemann from Terrestrial...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Daniel Seidemann, Dana El Kurd, Munir Nuseibah, Khaled Elgindy, Lara...
We begin this morning with a CNN interview with Palestinian attorney and Rutgers University Professor Noura Erakat. It is a couple of months old, but we play it to offer an example of the American media’s prejudicial approach to discussing the Palestinian struggle. The questions thrown at Noura imply that this is a symmetrical struggle between equals rather than a military occupation of a colonized people. But Noura brilliantly turns the interview into a projection of the Palestinian...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, CNN, Noura Erakat, Hamas rockets, right to resist, occupation, Edward...
A major problem for pro-Palestinian activists is getting the Palestinian narrative, the Palestinian factual history, the Palestinian truth, or the Palestinian analysis, into the mainstream media, which is currently dominated by the revisionist Israeli narrative fueled by the multimillion dollar Israeli Lobby. This week we take the current temperature of US media on presenting Palestinian visibility, the Palestinian case for liberation, and the projection of the Palestinian voice into the...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Sut Jhally, Palestinian narrataive, Occupation of the American Mind,...
Hass insists that covering Palestine from Palestine is as necessary as covering Britain from London, and France from Paris. Her reports for the Israeli daily Ha’aretz, which she says "cannot be objective, just as any reporting about wrong-doing cannot be objective," have won her enemies in all camps. Forced by Hamas to leave Gaza earlier than planned, in 2008, she was detained in Israel twice for entering Gaza without a permit and staying in an "enemy entity."
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Amira Hass, covering Palestine, Gaza, Ramallah, Ha'aretz, wrong-doing,...
We hear Hanan Ashwari, the first woman elected to the PLO governing council, who also served as its spokesperson for several years. She also has served in the Palestinian parliament. Here she is delivering a keynote address to the annual conference of the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs. Before that, we discuss the Jewish establishment's knee jerk attack on Amnesty International's Apartheid report.They use language right out of the Israeli Hasbara talking points catalogue. They parrot...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Hanan Ashwari, Apartheid, Amnesty International, Palestinian icon,...
Levy is a respected award-winning Israeli journalist and author. In this address, he laments the hypocrisy of those who claim Israeli values relating to Ukraine -- versus those in Palestine. Israel claims to be "special" and therefore not bound by others' rules of war or human rights. So among the millions who are fleeing Ukraine, Israel welcomes only the Jewish. Others must pay a fee of $3000 and may stay only 30 days. So Israelis applaud the youth of Ukraine who throw so-called...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Gideon Levy, Ukraine, Molotov cocktails, hypocrisy, Truth and Justice...
Sponsored by the Foundation for Middle East Peace. Its President, Lara Friedman, moderates a conversation between Inès Abdel Razek and Munir Nusseibeh about developments in Jerusalem and their broader context and implications. Inès is the Advocacy Director for the Palestine Institute for Public Diplomacy (PIPD). Munir is a human rights lawyer and academic based in Al-Quds University in Jerusalem.
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Lara Friedman, Ines Abdel Razek, Munir Nusseibeh, PIPD, FMEP, Middle East...
Today we go on a journey with Alison Glick, who as a young American Jewish girl went on an organized trip to Israel as a teenager. We let Alison tell the story which she has published in her new fictional novel. It's based on the several years she lived in Palestine. The book, The Other End of the Sea, portrays the agony of the discovery of shattered myths, and the story of self-discovery through a turbulent romance in an apartheid society.
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Alison Glick, The Other End of the Sea, Palestine, apartheid society,...
Palestinians call this region Al-Naqab. The population of this vast area consists of over 200,000 historically nomadic Bedouins, just over half of which are crammed into the seven government-built Bedouin-only towns; the remaining 90,000 live in 46 villages – 35 of which are still unrecognized by the Israeli government which controls the entire area. We Hear from Palestinians confronting Jewish National Fund (JNF) terror and Zionist colonialism to save Al-Naqab. Speakers Raafat Abu Aish and...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Al-Naqab, Raafat Abu Aish, Laila Alsana, Jewish National Fund, Zionist...
Today we take a long critical look at the history and role of the Palestinian Authority (PA) as a militarized security agency working in collaboration with Israel to enforce the occupation and colonization of Palestine. Professor Joseph Massad, who has done extensive research on the PA, addresses the issue in an Electronic Intifada Podcast. Massad teaches modern Arab politics and intellectual history at Columbia University in New York. He is the author of several books, including Desiring Arabs...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Joseph Massad, PA, Palestinian Authority, collaborator, PLO, Electronic...
We have been hearing more and more lately about the so-called shifting Palestinian narrative. Today, three speakers from the Palestinian human rights organization, Al-Shabaka, explore the depth and breadth of the process and the meaning of the shifting narrative in the era of Intersectionality.
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Al-Shabaka, Nadim Pawalsa, Tareq Baconi, Yara Hawari, shifting narrative,...
As is so evident, Israel has a very special relationship to the US, unparalleled by any other country. We pour more foreign aid to Israel than any other country, largely for weapons built in the US, even though Israel’s largest exports are military and police weapons. They do not lack for money. They have the fifth largest GDP in the world. So why do we give these resources that they really do not need when resources are needed is so many other places? That is the question explored today by...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Walter Hixson, special relationship, Israel owns, White House, Congress,...
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This is a report of a demonstration on the 20th anniversary of the opening of the detention center at Guantanamo, Cuba. About 10 activists came out to voice their outrage at the prison, the horrible treatment that the prisoners get and the fact that it is still open after 20 years. The rally was held at Park St Station on the Boston Common on January 11, 2022. The protesters were mostly in orange jumpsuits, like the prisoners at Guantanamo, as they read the names of the men held there, told...
Topics: Guantanamo, torture, lawless, 20 years, protest, rally, Boston Common, T station, Susan McLucas,...
Miko Peled is not Palestinian; in fact, he is a culturally Jewish Israeli. His family’s heritage is European, and includes a grandfather who was a signer of the Israeli Declaration of Independence in May 1948 and a father who was a prominent general in the Israeli Army in the 1960s-1970s. But Miko Peled has become a staunch advocate for Palestinian rights, and a fierce critic of apartheid Israel. One of his books is Injustice: The Story of the Holy Land Foundation Five (Just World Books,...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Miko Peled, one democratic state, Palestinian rights, Truth and Justice...
For many of us, reviewing 2021 is a painful process. For Palestinians review of every year is a painful process, and 2021 was no exception, but that is exactly what we will do this morning on This Week In Palestine, review 2021 through the Palestinian narrative. In today's feature presentation, The Foundation for Middle East Peace's President Lara Friedman hosts Palestinian organizer and activist Fadi Quran and journalist and Professor Peter Beinart for a wide-ranging conversation about 2021's...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, FMEP, Foundation for Middle East Peace, Laura Friedman, Fadi Quran, Peter...
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